8. They have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them; they have made themselves a molten calf and have worshipped it and have sacrificed unto it and said, These are thy gods, O Israel, which have brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.
9. The Lord further said unto Moses, I have seen this people, and for certain it is a stiffnecked people.
10. Now therefore let me alone that my wrath may wax hot in them and consume them; and I will put thee over a great nation.
11. Then Moses grieved before the Lord his God and said, Lord, why shall thy wrath wax hot against thy people, which thou hast brought forth out of the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand?